2016

It is a major challenge in developing countries to ensure access to quality social housing. Standardised mass housing is still ubiquitously used when addressing pressing shortages, regardless of well-documented problems with this form of provision.

Designing environments for human inhabitation can be characterised as the process of formalising multiple objectives into a coherent physical artefact. Design objectives derive from needs and/or desires of the agents involved in the aforementioned process.

Uncertainty and the complexity of urban environment raise doubts about static and solid decisions in the field of urban design. Cities, like all other open systems, are complex and sometimes self-organizing. The context of a project, as a starting point of urban design, is constantly changing in a non-linear way (Portugali, 2000). However, urban design nowadays almost always presents a fixed blueprint based on a snapshot of a situation. This approach is not capable of fulfilling the necessities of the urban regeneration process. (Beirão et al., 2011) Therefore, the objective of urban design needs to move from a static design of a particular layout toward complex and speculative solutions.

Can ‘Dynamical Transitional Rules [DTR]’ improve our modelling tools and allow us for better understanding of urban dynamic phenomenon?

A Historical Study of the Ritual and Transcendental Experiences in the Immersive Multimedia Environments of the 1960-70s

The role of the built environment in maintaining patient sense of support

Buildings consume a significant amount of energy over its life cycle.

This thesis aims to develop and test a novel technology, based on inflatable membranes, for the erection of post-formed gridshell structures.

Public Private Partnership (PPP) is a way to deliver public infrastructure using private funding and managing risk for public purposes. PPP’s are a model of procurement for infrastructure projects around the world, such as toll roads, hospital, schools, power plants, social housing, and prisons.

On our rapidly urbanising planet, the everyday life of the world’s swelling population of urbanites is increasingly sustained by a vast and unknowably complex system of infrastructure and technology.

The aim of this study is to uncover the impacts of emerging digital technologies on landscape architecture design and construction practices in Australia.

Investigating Urban Form, Manager Attitudes and Landscape Context to Inform Strategies for Improved Biodiversity in Melbourne’s Residential Nature Strips

Informal settlements in Kathmandu are increasing in size and number (Lumanti, 2008, UN-Habitat, 2015). The housing demand in the city is increasing due to population growth and migration, resulting in rising housing prices (Shrestha, 2013).

Case Studies of three Residential Redevelopment Projects in Shenzhen, China

This research is curious about the future of urban retail development. It focuses on the synergies between three significant retail types: main street, shopping mall and power centre, and is eager to investigate how these synergies could contribute to a strong public urban life in a resilient way.

‘Compulsory purchase’ is the power of the government to acquire private land for public use (Mills, 1982). The concept of compulsory purchase is “forceful” by its definition and execution.

This research project is an historical investigation into the practice of Perth architect Ronald Jack (Gus) Ferguson (1931- ).

This study explores the reciprocity between socio-cultural practices of “the proletarian class” and the designed landscapes in Shanghai’s urban public realm since the establishment of People’s Republic of China.